Methods To Recover Lost Contacts From iPhone

Here is an email I received :"Yesterday I found the newly added contacts disappeared from my iPhone,these contacts were some of my new customer’s.i must get the lost contacts back otherwise I will get into trouble.however the contacts lost before i backup them. I could not restore iPhone contacts from backup.I was anxious to know is it possible to recover lost contacts from iPhone without backup."

Apparently, this user needs to recover his lost contacts from iPhone but he did not have any iTunes or iCloud backup. That's OK. Even though he had no backup, he could access and recover lost contacts from his iPhone directly. Usually, when you lose some data from your iPhone or iPad, you can recover them from your iOS device directly. If you have an iTunes or iCloud backup for those data, you can also extract them from backup. So, here, I want to show you three methods to recover lost contacts from iPhone. 

Generally, there are two common methods to restore the lost contact on iPhone

iCloud: which is the most preferred and popular method today

iTunes: an old method which still many people use

iFonebox : a professional data recovery tool designed to recover the lost/deleted data from iPhone. It also supports to extract and restore data from iTunes or iCloud backup if you have one. Now, you can transfer recovered contacts and notes back to your iDevice directly. 

How to restore lost iPhone contacts via iCloud backup

First make sure you have enabled iCloud Contacts sync. To check if this is true:

•     Login to https://icloud.com with your Apple ID and password
•     Click on Contacts
•     Search your contacts to check if the lost contact (from your iPhone) is here
If yes, you can now restore that lost contact easily.

Step 1: Go to Settings -> iCloud on your iPhone, and turn off Contacts

Step 2: When the popup message comes up, press ‘Keep on My iPhone’

Step 3: Now, turn ON the contacts and click “Merge”; wait for a while

Step 4: After sometime, you should see the lost contact back on your iPhone. In case this doesn’t work, all you do is delete your iCloud account (but keep all data) Then add your iCloud account again, and still choose “merge” when prompted.

How to restore iPhone contacts via iTunes backup?

I f you backed up your iPhone with iTunes in a very recent time, you’re in luck. Restore lost contacts on your iPhone, all you do is:

Step 1: Connect your iPhone to the PC/Mac via usb cable and run iTunes

Step 2: Click on Devices tab

Step 3: Right-click on the iPhone and choose “Restore from Backup”.

Step4: From the drop-down menu, choose the backup that you wish to restore from, and hit “Restore”

Note that this will effectively remove all current data on your iPhone and replaced by the previous data on the the backup files.

How to recover contacts on iPhone via  iOS Data Recovery?

I have to mention that the above 2 methods only work when you have backups, What to do if you don’t have backup? A third party tool is needed. Here I recommend iFonebox .

iOS Data Recovery aims to help you recover lost or deleted data from iPhone with 3 steps. It supports iPhone 6Plus/6/5/5S/5C/4S, etc. Such software can not only recover deleted contacts from your iPhone directly, but extract contacts from your backup if you have an iTunes or iCloud backup. 

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Step 1: Connect your iPhone to computer

Run iFonebox; connect your iPhone to PC with USB cable. Then select “Recover from iOS Device” to start the iPhone contacts recovery job. You’ll see the window below.

Step 2: Start to scan your iPhone
Click on Contacts and iFonebox scan your iPhone automatically. After scanning finished, all contacts including the lost ones on you iPhone will displayed in the windows.

Step 3: Preview the contacts and selectively to recover
In the scanning result, you can easily preview all data found on your iPhone. Pick out those contacts you need then, click Recover to Device, all contacts you select will be on your iPhone now. 

Tips: you can also edit those contacts and then save the modified contacts to your iPhone. 

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